Help - Publish Errors - and where's the Log File ?

[Bob]

I have a site that generates an error when being published.

"An error occurred accessing your front page web files...is authoring
against a web server, please contact the webmaster for the server's
site. Webmasters - please see the system's server log for more
details".

My first question is: where is the server log file and what is it
named?

The site is stored on a local web server. I am opening it as
http://localserver.com. I have tried publishing it to the same web
server, to a remote web server, and to a local disk/dir. The same
problem occurs (or it just hangs FP). I seem to be able to open and
publish other webs on the same server to all the same locations with
no problem.

When it's failed, I have been able to go in and publish individual
files - including the one the it was on when it failed. I can select 5
files and publish them. I can select an alternate group of 5 files and
publish them. But, selecting 10 files will produce an error (above).
This web is no different than any of my other webs in terms of content
or graphics... no extensions are used...just 20 basic pages and
graphics. I tried converting the web site to a folder, then converted
it back to a web, it acts the same. I recalculated hyperlinks - no
change.

Ideas? (and where's that log file?"

Thanks.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

FP does not support local servers w/ .com addresses
If it is on your local host it would be
http://localhost/ or http://machinename/

Also if you have been viewing the site files in Windows explorer and have any thumbs.db in your site publishing will often fail
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|I have a site that generates an error when being published.
|
| "An error occurred accessing your front page web files...is authoring
| against a web server, please contact the webmaster for the server's
| site. Webmasters - please see the system's server log for more
| details".
|
| My first question is: where is the server log file and what is it
| named?
|
| The site is stored on a local web server. I am opening it as
| http://localserver.com. I have tried publishing it to the same web
| server, to a remote web server, and to a local disk/dir. The same
| problem occurs (or it just hangs FP). I seem to be able to open and
| publish other webs on the same server to all the same locations with
| no problem.
|
| When it's failed, I have been able to go in and publish individual
| files - including the one the it was on when it failed. I can select 5
| files and publish them. I can select an alternate group of 5 files and
| publish them. But, selecting 10 files will produce an error (above).
| This web is no different than any of my other webs in terms of content
| or graphics... no extensions are used...just 20 basic pages and
| graphics. I tried converting the web site to a folder, then converted
| it back to a web, it acts the same. I recalculated hyperlinks - no
| change.
|
| Ideas? (and where's that log file?"
|
| Thanks.
|

 

[Bob]

FP does not support local servers w/ .com addresses
If it is on your local host it would be
http://localhost/ or http://machinename/

If by "local server" you mean "the machine you are on" then that is
not the issue. The server is a separate win2003 IIS server.

Also if you have been viewing the site files in Windows explorer and have any thumbs.db in your site publishing will often fail

I don't see those or anything else odd in the directories.

Any clues on the name of the "log" file it is referring to in the
message ? There's nothing in the server's System log that refers to MS
FP at all.